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gathering

By verysoftwares

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2
Fun2
Innovation2
Theme4.003
Graphics3.503
Audio2
Humor2

Comments

nbumgardner 2025-10-07 00:28

Cute game! I like the wiggling of the characters. Ran into a couple crashes though.

I got to the 3rd conversation scene just now before getting the following error:

``` Error

dialogue.lua:59: UTF-8 decoding error: Not enough space

Traceback

[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler' [C]: in function 'print' dialogue.lua:59: in function 'lineprint' dialogue.lua:30: in function 'dialoguedraw' main.lua:30: in function 'draw' [love "callbacks.lua"]:168: in function <[love "callbacks.lua"]:144> [C]: in function 'xpcall' ```

After trying again and collecting everything I could, I got an error during the 2nd conversation:

``` Error

dialogue.lua:5: attempt to index field 'col' (a nil value)

Traceback

[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler' dialogue.lua:5: in function 'dialoguedraw' main.lua:30: in function 'draw' [love "callbacks.lua"]:168: in function <[love "callbacks.lua"]:144> [C]: in function 'xpcall' ```

nbumgardner 2025-10-07 00:38

Hmm, I heard it was fixed, but unfortunately now I get a _Virus detected_ error when I try re-downloading.

adrien-tremblay 2025-10-07 02:46

I got the same error. RIP

verysoftwares 2025-10-07 09:08

thanks for letting me know guys. i fixed my typos causing crashes and it seems that the virus detector doesn't go off after that.

verysoftwares 2025-10-07 09:22

perhaps my fumbling around accidentally created a powerful virus and all airports in Bangladesh have been compromised.

swynfel 2025-10-13 21:20

Very interesting concept being able to pick anything. Pretty neat for the voice acting as well, it's the first time I've seen it in a ludum dare and it does make the game stand out! The hand-drawn paper-graphics with simple animation was also a nice touch

However I feel they were too many things / bugs that could "soft-lock" you (or maybe there are ways out of it that I didn't see). I had to relaunch the game several time: you can get stuck if you forget to pick a leaf, if clicking on another leaf at a wrong moment in the dialogue after already giving one, if you pick-up mumina (no way to let them down I think), if you go to the bakery (you can't pick the 3 cakes as you normally have the map filling in your inventory), etc. If this was intended, an icon / button for a quick restart would have been nice

A pity, because otherwise it is a pretty nice, cute and cozy experience :)